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A growing number of unhoused people are refusing to live on the run they’re working to stop evictions and to build something lasting where they already live.
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The kitchen and community clinic at Cob on Wood, an eco-village built inside a massive homeless encampment in Oakland, where residents may soon be evicted. (Courtesy of Cob on Wood)
Wood Street is where the Bay Area sends its unwanted. In a series of lots in an industrial corner of West Oakland, arsonists torch abandoned cars. Contractors dump old building materials and trash without permits near the train tracks. It’s where the city’s police, in the process of forcibly clearing out the more than 140 encampments of unhoused people that dot the region, tell people to go to be left alone, under the shadow of a raised highway bridge on Interstate 880.
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